It’s a shame, really, about our ten-minute attention spans. Because a delightful talent comes along and we yammer about them with all of our might, and then forget about them with exactly the same intensity.

Scott Seiss, aka “Angry Retail Guy,” for example, was a social media phenomenon back in winter and spring 2021. But now here it is, the end of summer, and I find that if I bring up Seiss and remind people who he is, I encounter an almost aggressive level of forgetfulness followed by mild scorn for a has-been whose TikTok videos came out clear back in, what — February?

Meanwhile, Seiss goes right on sensibly building his career as a stand-up comedian and actor. At the end of July, he sold out the Bell House in Brooklyn, which added a late show to accommodate the demand for tickets. And he just got cast in a movie generating considerable buzz called Cocaine Bear, directed by Elizabeth Banks and starring Ray Liotta, Keri Russell, and Alden Ehrenreich.